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    The Oxford Handbook of Food History by Pilcher, Jeffrey M.;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 8 November 2012

    • ISBN 9780199729937
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages536 pages
    • Size 249x180x40 mm
    • Weight 1089 g
    • Language English
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    The Oxford Handbook of Food History places existing works of food history in historiographical context, crossing disciplinary, chronological, and geographic boundaries, while also suggesting new routes for future research. The twenty-seven essays in this book are organized into five basic sections: historiography and disciplinary approaches as well as the production, circulation, and consumption of food.

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    The historical study of food, culture, and society has become established within the academy based on a generation of high-quality scholarship. Following the foundational work of the French Annales school, the International Committee for the Research into European Food History and the Institut Europeen d'Histoire et des Cultures de l'Alimentation have conducted wide-ranging research, particularly on the changes brought about by culinary modernization. In the United States, the ascendancy of cultural history in the 1990s encouraged young scholars to write dissertations on food-related topics. Despite the existence of at least four major scholarly journals focused on food, the field still lacks a solid foundation of historiographical writing. As a result, innovative early approaches to commodity chains, ethnic identities, and culinary transformation have become repetitive. Meanwhile, scholars are often unaware of relevant literature when it does not directly relate to their particular national and chronological focus.

    The Oxford Handbook of Food History places existing works in historiographical context, crossing disciplinary, chronological, and geographic boundaries, while also suggesting new routes for future research. The twenty-seven essays in this book are organized into five basic sections: historiography and disciplinary approaches as well as the production, circulation, and consumption of food. Chapters on historiography examine the French Annales school, political history, the cultural turn, labor, and public history. Disciplinary methods that have contributed significantly to the history of food including anthropology, sociology, geography, the emerging Critical Nutrition Studies. The final chapter in this section explores the uses of food in the classroom. The production section encompasses agriculture, pastoralism, and the environment; using cookbooks as historical documents; food and empire; industrial foods; and fast food. Circulation is examined through the lenses of human mobility, chronological frames, and food regimes, along with case studies of the medieval spice trade, the Columbian exchange, and modern culinary tourism. Finally, the consumption section focuses on communities that arise through the sharing of food, including religion, race and ethnicity, national cuisines, and social movements.

    vital and timely gathering of scholarship ... The general public will find this collection a stimulating introduction to the study of food and foodways. Scholars who work on food-related topics will find these essays a thoughtful assessment of the field from multiple perspectives. The range and depth of the essays within this volume reveal the maturity of food studies as a field as well as the exciting avenues available for further analysis.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Jeffrey M. Pilcher
    Part I. Food Histories
    1. Food and the Annales School, Sydney Watts
    2. Political Histories of Food, Enrique Ochoa
    3. Cultural Histories of Food, Jeffrey M. Pilcher
    4. Labor Histories of Food, Tracey Deutsch
    5. Public Histories of Food, Rayna Green
    Part II. Food Studies
    6. Gendering Food, Carole Counihan
    7. Anthropology of Food, R. Kenji Tierney and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
    8. Sociology of Food, Sierra Burnett Clark and Krishnendu Ray
    9. Geography of Food, Bertie Mandelblatt
    10. Critical Nutrition Studies, Charlotte Biltekoff
    11. Teaching with Food, Jonathan Deutsch and Jeffrey Miller
    Part III. The Means of Production
    12. Agricultural Production and Environmental History, Sterling Evans
    13. Cookbooks as Historical Documents, Ken Albala
    14. Empires of Food, Jayeeta Sharma
    15. Industrial Food, Gabriella M. Petrick
    16. Fast Food, Steve Penfold
    Part IV. The Circulation of Food
    17. Food, Mobility, and World History, Donna R. Gabaccia
    18. The Medieval Spice Trade, Paul Freedman
    19. The Columbian Exchange, Rebecca Earle
    20. Food, Time, and History, Elias Mandala
    21. Food Regimes, André Magnan
    22. Culinary Tourism, Lucy Long
    Part V. Communities of Consumption
    23. Food and Religion, Corrie E. Norman
    24. Food, Race, and Ethnicity, Yong Chen
    25. National Cuisines, Alison K. Smith
    26. Food and Ethical Consumption, Rachel Ankeny
    27. Food and Social Movements, Warren Belasco

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